VIU basketball player Kaitlyn Lafontaine recognized with Aboriginal Youth Excellence in Sports Award – NanaimoNewsNOW
NANAIMO — Basketball player, coach, student, and proud member of her Metis first nations community – that only partially describes VIU student Kaitlyn Lafontaine.
The 21-year-old was one of twelve recipients of a 2017 Premier’s Award for Aboriginal Youth Excellence in Sport earlier this month.
She’s been a member of the VIU Mariners basketball team for four seasons, and she’s also been a part of the North American Indigenous games as a player and an assistant coach.
Lafontaine coaches a girls team in Nanaimo, and is working on a criminology degree from VIU.
Just recently she was accepted into law school and wants to work towards an Indigenous specialization.
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